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Unicode Explained

ISBN: 059610121X
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2006
Pages: 139

Authors: Jukka K. Korpela

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• Unicode Explained
• Table of Contents
• Unicode Explained
• Preface
• Part I: Working with Characters
• Characters as Data
• Section 1.1. Introduction to Characters and Unicode
• Section 1.2. What s in a Character?
• Section 1.3. Variation of Writing Systems
• Section 1.4. Glyphs and Fonts
• Section 1.5. Definitions of Character Repertoires
• Section 1.6. Numbering Characters
• Section 1.7. Encoding Characters as Octet Sequences
• Section 1.8. Working with Encodings
• Section 1.9. Working with Fonts
• Section 1.10. Summaries
• Writing Characters
• Section 2.1. Method Varieties
• Section 2.2. Keyboard Variation and Settings
• Section 2.3. Virtual Keyboards
• Section 2.4. Program Commands
• Section 2.5. Character Maps
• Section 2.6. Replacements on the Fly
• Section 2.7. Special Techniques
• Section 2.8. Escape Sequences
• Section 2.9. Specialized Editors
• Section 2.10. Exercise
• Character Sets and Encodings
• Section 3.1. Good Old ASCII
• Section 3.2. ISO 8859 Codes
• Section 3.3. Windows Latin 1 and Other Windows Codes
• Section 3.4. Other 8-bit Codes
• Section 3.5. Unicode and UTF-8
• Section 3.6. Encodings for East Asian Language
• Section 3.7. Converters and Transcoding
• Section 3.8. Using Character Codes
• Part II: A Systematic Look at Unicode
• The Structure of Unicode
• Section 4.1. Design Principles
• Section 4.2. Versions of Unicode
• Section 4.3. Coding Space
• Section 4.4. Unicode Terms
• Section 4.5. Guide to the Unicode Standard
• Section 4.6. Unicode and Fonts
• Section 4.7. Criticism of Unicode
• Section 4.8. Questions and Answers
• Properties of Characters
• Section 5.1. Character Classification
• Section 5.2. An Overview of Properties
• Section 5.3. Compositions and Decompositions
• Section 5.4. Normalization
• Section 5.5. Case Properties
• Section 5.6. Collation and Sorting
• Section 5.7. Text Boundaries
• Section 5.8. Directionality
• Section 5.9. Line-Breaking Properties
• Section 5.10. Unicode Conformance Requirements
• Section 5.11. Effects on Choosing Characters
• Unicode Encodings
• Section 6.1. Unicode Encodings in General
• Section 6.2. UTF-32 and UCS-4
• Section 6.3. UTF-16 and UCS-2
• Section 6.4. UTF-8
• Section 6.5. Byte Order
• Section 6.6. Conversions Between Unicode Encodings
• Section 6.7. Other Encodings
• Section 6.8. Auto-Detecting the Encoding
• Section 6.9. Choosing an Encoding
• Part III: Advanced Unicode Topics
• Characters and Languages
• Section 7.1. Writing Systems and IT
• Section 7.2. Character Requirements of Languages
• Section 7.3. Transliteration and Transcription
• Section 7.4. Language Metadata
• Section 7.5. Languages and Fonts
• Character Usage
• Section 8.1. Basics of Character Usage
• Section 8.2. ASCII (Basic Latin)
• Section 8.3. Latin-1 Supplement (ISO 8859-1)
• Section 8.4. Other Latin Letters
• Section 8.5. Other European Alphabetic Scripts
• Section 8.6. Diacritic Marks
• Section 8.7. Letterlike Symbols
• Section 8.8. General Punctuation
• Section 8.9. Line Structure Control
• Section 8.10. Mathematical and Technical Symbols
• Section 8.11. Other Blocks
• The Character Level and Above
• Section 9.1. Levels of Text Representation and Processing
• Section 9.2. Characters and Markup
• Section 9.3. Media Types for Text
• Characters in Internet Protocols
• Section 10.1. Information About Encoding
• Section 10.2. Characters in MIME
• Section 10.3. Content Negotiation and Multilingual Sites
• Section 10.4. Characters in Protocol Headers
• Section 10.5. Characters in Domain Names and URLs
• Characters in Programming
• Section 11.1. Characters in Computer Languages
• Section 11.2. Character and String Data
• Section 11.3. The Preparedness Principle
• Section 11.4. Character Input and Output
• Section 11.5. Processing Form Data
• Section 11.6. Identifiers, Patterns, and Regular Expressions
• Section 11.7. International Components for Unicode (ICU)
• Section 11.8. Using Locales
• Tables for Writing Characters
• Section A.1. Additional Notes
• About the Author
• Colophon
• Index
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